Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun sg] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Harries burned down his fancy dress hire shop in a bid to swindle £340,000 after he ran up more than £160,000 debts . |
| 2 | NEC is counting on shipping 1,500 units to Control Data by the end of 1994 , and the two are considering developing their relationship further , including the supply by NEC of other UNIX workstations to Control Data , the adoption by NEC of some Control Data applications to fill gaps in its own line — and the marketing by Control Data of NEC personal computers , probably the Ultralite MS-DOS laptop computer . |
| 3 | For good children 's addresses are more precious than rare ointment and there is no sense in casting piglet pearls to adult swine . |
| 4 | But the jury cleared Charles McGhee of nine of the ten charges of violence to prison staff , and he was sentenced to twelve months for wounding . |
| 5 | The news means ACE has now effectively lost two of its main founder members — if MIPS ' submission to Silicon Graphics Inc is n't counted — and at best can count only on the flirtatious attention of Digital Equipment Corp and Microsoft Corp , who are conducting their own extra-marital affair . |
| 6 | A few low hovels that had once been homes to river people were now derelict , and an empty building which was once a sailmaker 's and then a barge-builder 's premises now stood empty after its last owner , a steam-traction engineer , foundered in the changing times . |
| 7 | The data processing hardware consisted of a one megabyte IBM 370/138 with 18 Visual Display Units , 8 printers and Redifon Key to Disk data preparation equipment . |
| 8 | The careers and higher education information is dynamic , interactive , specialist , comprehensive and time-saving and an excellent aid to school staff whose time is at a premium . |
| 9 | Since the days when he first settled at Yarrundi to farm sheep and cattle on the fertile Liverpool plains , Stephen Coxen had accumulated a substantial tract of land amounting to about 12,000 acres and about as many head of livestock . |
| 10 | Information they gathered was sent back to platoon headquarters by runner and radioed from the village to Company headquarters . |
| 11 | I also I mean Sun to Silicon Graphics , sometimes you need to make s see what the compiler option is in fact . |
| 12 | England had lost fewer players than most countries to World Series Cricket and had won a number of rubbers as a result but , when the armistice was signed , England 's limitations were soon exposed . |
| 13 | The continuing commitment of top management to development people is communicated to all employees . |
| 14 | 20 pence for every card sold goes into the Molly Braithwaite Fund and with your help to date £70 has been raised for the above fund . |
| 15 | Two of ACE 's founding fathers , Compaq Computer Corp and Santa Cruz Operation Inc are now being widely tipped to stymie their respective MIPS-based ACE development work ; not just because MIPS is about to lose its independence to Silicon Graphics Inc , but also because the Intel Corp 80586 ( P5 ) bandwagon is now gathering a full head of steam , whilst DEC is also doing its damnedest to undermine the whole MIPS effort with its Alpha RISC ( see below ) . |
| 16 | They added that the failure to discipline staff over the BCCI affair had undermined its future effectiveness . |
| 17 | Criticism is also made of the Bank of England 's failure to discipline staff . |
| 18 | The legislation , which had been opposed by the Chinese authorities , aimed to give security to business people , civil servants and other professionals in Hong Kong and to dissuade them from emigrating before 1997 . |
| 19 | Customers who recently sent anything by post to Book Data are asked to contact Vesna Nall on . |
| 20 | Returned that same evening to Brigade Headquarters to collect my rucksack containing all my worldly possessions and , of course , the bagpipes . |
| 21 | Wealthy Major John Harvey and his wife , Lorna , in their mid-sixties , played host to Palin and a camera crew from the BBC 's Pole to Pole series . |
| 22 | Any-way in September 1990 I decided to further my career in Horticulture and started a college course full time at Houghall College , County Durham , which meant having to live on a Educational-grant My expenses weekly are £29 rent , bus fares to college £25 , HP £10 , electric £5 total £69 weekly this is without food . |
| 23 | To which Widnes have countered with three pages of questions to League headquarters , demanding answers . |
| 24 | ‘ It will provide a showcase to business people of all the attributes the industry has in Scotland and how they can be used , while getting a real exchange going as to how it should develop in the future . ’ |
| 25 | Efforts to interest people with experience of business and top management in authority membership ( DH , 1990 ) make clear the kind of experience the government considers to be particularly relevant . |
| 26 | The aim is to relate pollution levels before and after the changes to health statistics . |
| 27 | There is a slight problem of ghettoisation or marginalisation but that 's an inevitable stage that people pass through , just like you need any form of organisation to group people around as a focus . ’ |
| 28 | RELATIONSHIP TO CAMP STAFF : He is well liked by the entire staff and they enjoy his company just as he does theirs . |
| 29 | Ministers won a vote to give a private company , Scallop Kings , exclusive rights to farm shellfish over an area of seabed along the shore south- west of Fort William . |
| 30 | Apart from this , the principal government response had apparently been a highly publicized campaign to remove Sendero graffiti from the walls of two Lima universities , and the distribution of old-fashioned Winchester rifles to peasant militia self-defence groups ( rondas campesinas ) during a militaristic ceremony held in the Andean village of Chaquichocha on June 23 . |